20 Most Controversial Games of the 2020s (So Far)
4. Ready or Not
Originally launched for PC in 2023, the tactical first-person shooter Ready or Not finally landed on consoles in May 2025, where it immediately got caught up in a censorship debate due to developer VOID Interactive announcing that the game's edgier content had to be curtailed for console certification.
Dismemberment and nudity both had to be toned down for the game to be approved for release on consoles, though to make the process of updating the game across platforms simpler, VOID also applied these changes to the PC version.
This caused the game to be review-bombed on Steam as players angrily bleated about censorship, while VOID maintained that the changes were small and had no noticeable impact on the tone or atmosphere of Ready or Not.
This didn't stop it quickly becoming the most pre-ordered game on the PlayStation Store, and within an hour of the changes being rolled out to the Windows version, a mod called "Uncensored or Not" was released which allowed players to restore the cut imagery.
Ultimately it was a whole lot of hot air about... not very much in the grand scheme of things, especially amid the more pressing critique that Ready or Not is shameless copaganda.